title: Fedora 9 liveusb-creator link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/fedora-9-liveusb-creator/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 519 created: 2008/05/29 14:11:05 created_gmt: 2008/05/29 14:11:05 comment_status: open post_name: fedora-9-liveusb-creator status: publish post_type: post

Fedora 9 liveusb-creator

Recently I bought a Kingston 4 Gb Data Traveller usb flash drive from my favorite computer store, the Triangle’s own Intrex here in Cary. This immediately paid for itself when I needed to do a quick backup of my desktop at work in order to rebuild it with CentOS 5 x86_64.

I’ve been interested in having a bootable Linux distro on a usb stick for some time, but until now the hardware I’ve had to work with just didn’t have the raw space to make it practical.

Armed with my new high capacity stick, I was able to use the Fedora Live USB Creator to create what I was looking for. What I wound up with is a Fedora 9 machine on a stick, with 1 Gb of persistent, writable space inside. Because liveusb-creator is does a nondestructive install, there’s stll 2 Gb of FAT32 space left after its all said and done (the Fedora 9 LiveCD system itself takes up around 1 Gb).

(My friend and colleague, Rob Kimball, will be happy to hear that liveusb-creator runs on Windows and has a nice GUI interface)

Very nice.

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